long-sightedness

For some time — a year? two? — he had known that his glasses were inadequate aids for his current level of long-sightedness but as with most such things, he had not bothered to replace them.

The Ageing Beaver 2009

Rabbi Lionel Blue once called it moral long-sightedness: the ablity to focus on poverty in Africa, or the effects of global warming, but be blind to the heartbreaking deprivation outside your own doorstep.

We shouldn't ignore the poverty in our own country 2009

Moral long-sightedness This is a phrase from Rabbi Lionel Blue.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

Moral long-sightedness This is a phrase from Rabbi Lionel Blue.

The Glasgow East by-election shows us the two Scotlands 2008

Thus, on the Left it is taken for granted that adherence to the social teaching of the Church entails support for increasing the minimum wage, for universal, tax-funded health care, and for lenient treatment of illegal immigrants; support for just-war doctrine is assumed to mean opposition to most if not all military action, at least when undertaken by the United States without permission from that bastion of harmony, virtue, and long-sightedness, the United Nations.

Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007

Thus, on the Left it is taken for granted that adherence to the social teaching of the Church entails support for increasing the minimum wage, for universal, tax-funded health care, and for lenient treatment of illegal immigrants; support for just-war doctrine is assumed to mean opposition to most if not all military action, at least when undertaken by the United States without permission from that bastion of harmony, virtue, and long-sightedness, the United Nations.

Collars in the Ring Mike L 2007

Show how the proper lenses remedy short - and long-sightedness.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

Short-sightedness is corrected by concave lenses and long-sightedness by convex lenses, as shown in diagrams above.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

Mr. McLain by earnest long-sightedness and industry succeeded in becoming a well-to-do citizen.

The Mystery of Monastery Farm H. R. Naylor

Fig. 164 — * Diagrams illustrating long-sightedness and short-sightedness*, and method of remedying these defects by lenses.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters